Adobe Illustrator-Digital Illustration and Design I

Introduction To Adobe Illustrator (AVDM 0704) is offered by MacEwan University. This is a hands-on, fast-paced course where students gain the technical skills to create sophisticated vector graphics for a range of art and design projects using Adobe Illustrator.

This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities who need to use Illustrator to create images, logos, advertisements or other graphic documents.

The Illustrator Introduction course is designed for anyone with little or no experience using Illustrator, and is a comprehensive overview for people currently using other drawing programs and for those who may be self-taught.

We’ll teach the fundamentals of digital art software and guide them to develop their drawing skills in proportion, texture, perspective and composition in this applied art class. Students will need to bring their own tablet and drawing tool. 

Illustrator has a lot of unique drawing features. We’ll focus on the basic ones here -- the ones you will use often. After this workshop you can start using Illustrator, with complete confidence, to create logos, illustrations, floorplans, posters, and banners. Students are encouraged to tell us ...